That's the rule of law in the US: "of any kind whatever". Guess why? Conference of a foreign title of nobility, with or without expressed hereditary property rights, realizes political or social allegiance to the Crown of England. Ambivalent allegiance of a "person holding any office or trust" in the US governments diminunizes sovereignty of the republic, democratic so-called. That's what your "Founding Fathers" believed before and after debating allegiance to the Crown as opposed to British Parliament.

And an order of knighthood is not a Grammy Award® by ballot.

20 years from now you'll be telling someone, "Calm down. Viscount McConnell hasn't much longer to live."

Or, "The Queen is not a king."

Or, "The Consititution is just a piece of paper."

See. Now. The more I think about this, the more pissed off I become. I don't care how many motherfuckin tumors...

Time out for MT.

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